{"id":8788,"date":"2026-02-09T15:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/?page_id=8788"},"modified":"2026-04-13T00:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:17:54","slug":"environmental-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/environmental-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Program in Environmental Studies prepares students with knowledge, skills, and ethical sensibilities needed to engage a broad range of local-to-global human-environment relationships.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Environmental studies is rooted in creating a more just, livable, and compassionate world for human and more-than-human flourishing at a time of radical climatic and environmental change. Courses in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities explore the cultural, political, scientific, creative, and ethical aspects of environmental questions. A social justice approach arms students with the knowledge and skills required to address today\u2019s urgent social-ecological issues. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jeanne Beliveau, Academic Administrative Assistant
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To examine, analyze, and understand the diverse resources of the natural world<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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To consider the scientific, technical, political, historical, cultural, and justice-oriented aspects of environmental issues<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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To use qualitative analysis software to build skills in ethnographic methods and thematic coding<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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To build focused knowledge and familiarity with methodological tools<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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To explore how environmental issues impact diverse populations through community-engaged coursework in urban, rural, and coastal settings<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Our alumni explore diverse career paths ranging from ecologists and environmental lawyers to policymakers and National Park Service rangers. Recent graduates currently work in positions that include energy and green building consulting<\/a> and land conservation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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of 2020-2024 Bates graduates are employed and\/or attending graduate school \u2014 settled into their next opportunity within 6 months of graduation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cBeing an environmental studies student at Bates helped me to broaden my thinking about how I approach research in work and in general. \u2026 At Bates, I learned to defend my ideas among my peers, receive critical feedback, and adjust what I was doing, all of which were important for my master\u2019s in chemical engineering. \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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